Harry Winston Avenue Classic Cherry Blossom

The annual cherry blossom festivals that enliven botanical gardens across the country are still weeks away. Perhaps looking forward to the festivals’ colorful introduction to spring, Harry Winston has just debuted a glittering reminder to save time for a visit to the nearest botanical garden to enjoy the blooming of the sakura.

The Harry Winston Avenue Classic Cherry Blossom Timepiece re-creates a flowering cherry blossom tree on its rectangular green-blue mother-of-pearl dial. The firm’s artisans use the natural iridescence of the mother-of-pearl nacre to simulate clouds on a blustery spring day. Thirty-nine brilliant-cut white diamonds and twenty-nine pink sapphires represent the flowers and petals of the cherry blossom tree. A few of them are still attached to the tree’s white-gold branches while others are seen as they drop to the ground. The gemstones are cut in different sizes to create a sensation of depth and movement.

The Harry Winston Avenue Classic Cherry Blossom Timepiece

The 21.15mm by 36.1 mm watch, like those all found in Harry Winston’s Avenue collection, features a white gold case that recalls the firm’s New York store stone façade, but here it’s set with twenty-nine brilliant-cut diamonds. The letters HW at 12 o’clock on the dial are housed in an octagonal frame, as inspired by the emerald diamond cut, said to be a favorite of Harry Winston. A Swiss quartz movement powers the watch.

And there are more gems on the white gold buckle. Six diamonds there offset the green-blue alligator strap (which matches the color of the dial). Price: $37,900.

About Harry Winston
Harry Winston timepieces combine the high quality craftsmanship of Harry Winston jewels with the time honored tradition of Swiss watchmaking.The Brand’s foray into fine timepieces in 1989 introduced a new creative dimension for the legendary House to explore. In 2007, Harry Winston opened a state of the art Manufacture in Geneva, the watchmaking capital of the world. The company’s watchmaking division upholds itself to the same flawless tradition of its legendary jewelry expertise. Harry Winston’s timepiece collections exude true authenticity and luxury, exemplified by fine design and careful manufacturing of complicated and gem-set watches replica.